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May 20, 2002 Issue

"He thinks the innocent priests and the church are the martyrs in this, not the kids. He just doesn't get what people are angry about."
-- A New York priest, "Cardinal in Crisis"

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FEATURES
Baby TalkBY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS
Like Cinderella at the ball, a remarkable number of New York women who've been blithely enjoying the single life are suddenly feeling that the party's over. Not only do they need to beat the clock if they want to have children, but the gender equality they've taken for granted -- on the job and off -- suddenly looks like a cruel joke. They can't help noticing: Men aren't the ones being warned to settle down, before it's too late. Good-bye, Sex and the City. Hello, Bringing Up Baby.

Cardinal in CrisisBY CHRIS SMITH
The Archbishop of New York serves two constituencies that don't always converge: the church itself and the city's 2 million Catholics. Cardinal O'Connor seemed most devoted to the latter; his successor, Cardinal Edward Egan, a former Vatican lawyer, to the former. Egan has cleaned up much of the fiscal mess O'Connor left behind, but he's shown little interest in the flock, and his public face in the pedophile crisis has been legalistic, at best. It's not playing in New York. But does it play in Rome?

The New GirlBY KATHERINE ROSMAN
Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos is hardly the stuff of which socialites are made -- she's from Colombia, by way of Queens, and her developer husband is not megarich, not superrich, merely rich. But this self-described "full-time mom" has used her dazzling looks, her considerable charm, and her organizational talents (not to mention expert navigation of the social press) to leverage herself into their midst. Is Kanavos guilty of -- gulp! -- social climbing, as some detractors suggest, or just good intentions?